Solution Brief

Software-Defined Storage and Data Management Solutions

for HPC and Unstructured Data Storage Customers
Enterprise customers are continually supporting a wider variety of workloads powered by next-gen CPUs, GPUs
and DPUs, innovative AI/ML, HPC, and Video applications that require Tier-0 storage: with lower latency, higher
IOPs and throughput. As a result, most enterprise data centers have a wide range of storage systems and storage
teams that are overburdened to meet all performance, capacity and efficiency requirements. Companies are
seeking to adopt cloud storage efficiently and effectively, allowing teams to collaborate globally and share data
across all storage tiers. Business users need a unified storage solution featuring automated, policy-based data
movement, active archives, strong search capabilities and instant access to data.

No Data Lock-in
The data is always stored
in its original format with
no vendor tax.
A Differentiated Offering
The Dell Technologies solution with Kalray combines Kalray’s award-winning
pixstor™ and ngenea® software, running on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell
PowerScale and Dell ECS storage.
pixstor™
pixstor™ is a Tier-0 storage solution. Powered by a proven high-performance parallel
file system trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, pixstor can easily
manage petabytes of data and billions of files, all under a single global namespace.

Tier to PowerScale pixstor is deployed by Dell Technologies customers as a high-performance scratch

space for applications that require very high IOPs, high throughput and the lowest
& ECS possible latency, such as HPC, AI/ML and video applications. pixstor’s parallel file
Kalray ngenea® offers system supports parallel data processing for HPC compute clusters. When combined
unrivalled flexibility when with ngenea, pixstor becomes the global namespace access point for all existing
working with Dell storage tiers including PowerScale and ECS. Leveraging ngenea, data can be moved
PowerScale. automatically between tiers of storage as needed at workload runtime, including the
pixstor scratch storage.

Cloud Enabled
If the solution requires a
Cloud workflow, we’ve got
this covered.
Class-Leading
TCO
Fixed price. No per TB
ngenea® licensing,
offering near limitless
scale at a predictable cost.
ngenea®
ngenea® provides holistic active data management bringing PowerScale and ECS
into the Global namespace. It provides holistic active data management: store the
right data in the right place at the right cost.
ngenea unifies existing file and object storage systems into a single namespace. As
such, customers can deploy object storage to move data sets off high-performance
tiers when the data is no longer actively used. ngenea features strong search
capabilities across storage tiers so users can find data fast, regardless of where it is
stored. With ngenea, Dell Technologies customers add data management to their
existing PowerScale and ECS storage infrastructures to automate data transfer
between high-performance tiers needed for active workflows and archive storage,
without the need for manual data movement being scripted into the workflow.
ngenea supports both on-premises and public cloud storage and is certified for all
S3-compatible public High-Performance Compute and Unstructured Data Storage
Enterprise Solution cloud offerings. Customers can create a single namespace with
supported Cloud Service Providers, currently Amazon Web Services, Azure and
Google Cloud Platform in order to support remote teams.

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 The Dell Technologies and Kalray Solution

• Highest performance scratch • Enables PowerScale to become • Cloud capabilities for

• Most powerful parallel file system part of a global namespace PowerScale and ECS
• Runs on PowerEdge servers • Active archives • Centralized PowerScale data
• Rich tool set accessible for remote users

Why Dell and Kalray? All-in-one, high-performance solution from Dell Technologies
and Kalray
Enterprise data storage requirements are dynamic and require flexible
high-performance solutions that address a variety of workload requirements.
1 Customers can unify their storage portfolio to include high-speed Tier 0 scratch
High performance joint space, as well as flexible data management that unifies and automates data
solution. movement among all tiers of data storage.

Unmatched data management

2 ngenea provides powerful, on-demand data management that unifies all tiers of
storage into a single namespace for a global view of data. This allows customers
Unmatched data to eliminate data silos by providing seamless automated data movement between
management.
tiers of storage, whether in scratch, PowerScale, ECS and cloud storage tiers.

Validated designs, powered by Dell Technologies and

3 Kalray
Validated designs, Validated designs take the guesswork out of deploying high-performance solutions
powered by Dell that meet your enterprise needs, simply and efficiently. A powerful, software-defined
Technologies and storage and data management solution, running on PowerEdge hardware, with
Kalray. proven designs that seamlessly integrate with new and existing PowerScale and
ECS deployments, all backed by Kalray’s global sales and support teams.

4 Unify your Dell Technologies storage

Unify your Dell With ngenea, enterprise customers can unify their existing PowerScale storage
Technologies storage systems into a single namespace, while adding ECS object storage for long-term
footprints. archive storage and transparently migrating data between systems as desired.

Customer Use Cases

Workload Acceleration
Kalray pixstor can easily manage petabytes of data and billions of files, all under a single global namespace. pixstor meets
the storage requirements of the most demanding HPC, AI/ML and post-production workloads. It leverages the fastest
components (NVMe) to feed the most data-hungry compute processors and delivers the highest throughput, IOPs/$ and
lowest latency.

Software-Defined Storage and Data Management Solutions for HPC and Unstructured Data Storage Customers © 2023 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Cloud Bursting
When on-premises infrastructures reach peak capacity, ngenea allows organizations to “burst” extra workloads to public
cloud services. This is a convenient and cost-effective method to support workloads with fluctuating demand patterns.
Public cloud enables organizations to easily scale to meet workload demands, worldwide. Leveraging the scale and
flexibility of public cloud enables customers to reduce the need for additional investment in on-premises infrastructure while
preventing interruption to business-critical applications caused by sudden workload spikes.
ngenea enables organizations to automatically transfer data from on-premises storage such as PowerScale into the cloud,
without manual data movement to quickly serve relevant data to compute instances in the Cloud.

Global Collaboration
ngenea enables organizations to securely share data between remote teams, across sites. It creates a single namespace
with supported (S3) CSPs and provides instant data access for distributed applications and remote users. ngenea
features real-time availability and instant data access. It supports on-premises clouds as well as AWS, Azure and GCP.

Combined HPC and data management solution with Dell Technologies Unstructured
Data Storage

About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies has been a leader in the advanced computing space for over a decade, delivering proven products, solutions and expertise. Dell
Technologies has a team of data analytics, HPC and AI experts dedicated to staying on the cutting edge, testing new technologies and tuning solutions
to your applications to help you keep pace with this constantly evolving landscape. Solutions include workstations, servers, networking, storage and
services that reduce complexity and enable you to capitalize on the promise of data analytics, HPC and AI. Click here for more.
About Kalray
Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris - ALKAL) is a leading provider of hardware and software technologies for high-performance, data-centric computing
markets, from cloud to edge. Kalray provides a full range of products and solutions to enable smarter, more efficient, and energy-
wise data-intensive applications and infrastructures. Click here for more.

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